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The switches lists speed the deck up and make it win through an easy and efficient combo, all fetchable by Yisan. The combo uses
Great Oak Guardian
,
Temur Sabertooth
, and
Wirewood Symbiote
. With these and enough mana producing creatures, you get infinitely large creatures or with 1 more mana, infinitely large creatures and infinite mana, and untaps which can be put into Yisan to fetch Caterhoof and give the team trample.

4 days ago

Kiri requires lands on the field to function, Animar's cost reduction and mana dorks aren't enough for the combo to fire. And on top of that, for the combo to work without killing you there has to be at least 4 lands that produce blue mana without hurting you. Animar can easily work with its low land count because of the help from its mana dorks, but those dorks don't contribute to Kiri.

So despite the mana base being geared towards having lands that are almost all able to provide blue mana in some fashion, taking the low land count and what sorts of lands of ideal for the combo into consideration, would
Sakura-Tribe Elder
add to the deck's consistency?

As mana ramp, the Elder is sub-par by Animar's standards.
Wood Elves
ETB is the ideal land ramp effect for the deck, and although
Crop Rotation
doesn't necessarily mana ramp it can still trade out a blue mana producing pain land for one that won't hurt you while you're comboing. However, the Elder is probably the second-best creature option for fetching and putting another land on the board, which may be relevant when you are only working with 30 lands to draw into. It may be annoying to have the land come into play tapped though, unless you are able to untap it on the same turn with something like
Peregrine Drake
. You may have to add a second basic island to the deck to increase the chances of the Elder having a target to fetch when you sac it.

I'm not confident that the Elder is actually worth the inclusion, but I just wanted to voice my thoughts regarding it. It may not matter at all since
Ancestral Statue
is still Plan A and Kiri is more of a Plan B.

Feel free to check out my list for ideas. I've been playing the deck for over 5 years now so it's fairly optimized. Feedback, Upvotes, and/or Ideas on any of my decklists is appreciated. Animar, Gaea's Hemorrhoid

6 days ago

Intriguing! Just want to ask a few questions about the enchantments (
Faces of the Past
,
Intruder Alarm
) since I'm not sure I completely grasp 100% how it elfball infinites. I think only
Thornbite Staff
completely works 100% of the time since it doesn't discriminate and doesn't care what type of creature dies, only if something does die; Vannifar's ability doesn't matter and we can do whatever we want, including a Lab Man win if Pod 2 is Elvish Visionary and Pod 4 is
Symbiotic Elf
. My understanding is:

Faces of the Past
: works until the second round of Pods, then you Pod
Elvish Soultiller
to reset the Elves like normal, untap Vannifar... but then what? If you were to pod
Woodland Bellower
(which came as a result of Podding the Soultiller), you wouldn't untap Vannifar since she isn't a Beast, and you wouldn't be able to find anything since there is no CMC 7 cost things here. How would the combo continue?

Intruder Alarm
: Same logic; works until the second round of Pods, you Pod the Soultiller and reset the Elves, but since there is no other 6 cmc creature here, nothing would ETB and untap Vannifar. Aside from manually summoning a creature (ramp from
Wood Elves
as the Pod 3 in the chain is good) or using one of the untap abilities from stuff like
Quirion Ranger
and
Kiora's Follower
etc, is there a way to make the combo self sustaining with
Intruder Alarm
?

Inferno Titan
has a firebreathing mana sink plus can help clear the way so all of your attackers actually connect more often.
Warmonger Hellkite
is even less expensive to buy and gives your whole team firebreathing. You have to attack every turn but you should be wanting to do that anyway.

I guess the real question is what do you define as budget? I've tried to keep my suggestions to under $3 but that may be more than you're looking to spend or you may have a higher threshold for price and that would expand my list of suggestions.

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